RDawson

I think I'm going to put a hitch on mine while it's torn down. My sister has a Hannigan trailer I'll take on a test run to see if I want one. If not maybe I'll fab up a small rack to put in the hitch for another small bag.

Best price I've seen in a while if you need one. Good til end of January.

Got it penciled in on our calendar. Planning to be there and to bring a few goodies for the raffle table.

Mega2500 (Gary Bakker) has come to my rescue and sending a couple shims. Where else can you get online to vent about local dealers and get offers to machine shims or get parts mailed to you? All before I had time to order new shims. Reminds me of an old post (Marcarl maybe) about free mechanic advice and parts. Thanks all.

I received Skydoc's valve kit yesterday, went through the bike and need 2 shims not in the kit. That's where the fun began. I called every Yamaha and Honda shop along with a few independents within a 2 hour drive, none have shims and most didn't know what I was asking for. How does a dealer with a service dept do all the scheduled maintenance they've signed off on without knowing what a 25mm valve shim is? Yamaha shop service mechanic told me it must be an extremely old bike to use them.

HMMMM Don't we have Mitsubishi fuel pumps in our 2nd gens? Does this explain the Kamikaze pump failures?

1st Gens???

Some of the Garmin GPS units have a mic in and mic out on the back. Paired with a Buddy Rich or Edsets cable it ties your phone to the bikes audio. You can then talk on the phone through the helmet mic. I'm looking into a way to do it without the gps. I want to put it inside the fairing and do away with the GPS

I'm with you on that. My 86 is going up for sale in the spring. As much as I like the power and handling it's just not as comfortable to us as the 07.

Not trying to hijack the thread but I've been talking to an electronics guy here about making a board to replace the Garmin Bluetooth interface for the 2nd gen. I don't use the Garmin for directions, only to tie the phone into the system. With the Garmin, Buddy Rich cable, and a Bluetooth receiver installed I can stream music, use the gps on the phone, and make/take phone calls on the bikes system. I'd like to do away with the Garmin to de-clutter the bars. He says he can make them but I'll have to buy at least 5 boards to get the manufacturer to make them. It may get expensive, I may go ahead in hopes to sell some unless we can come up with a different idea.

Congratulations. It's been a much talked about topic around here lately. I have to do another 1-1/2 years while the wife can retire this spring. We both planned to work longer but with the state retirement not being in great shape we may take what we can get and run. We've invested a lot of our lives and money in the retirement system only to find out the government used our money instead of raising taxes and just about broke the system.

53 and sunny/cloudy mix. Wife got the itch so we got the 2nd gen out and put in 150 miles. Went through Land Between the Lakes national park, watched some buffalo, and rode around Fort Donelson civil war park. Pretty good afternoon.

I looked but didn't find it.

Sure wish somebody had shot the one my wife got. $5100 damage to the Jeep. :mad: Thank goodness for insurance.

Thanks, she was upset but is fine. We bought it new last year and she really likes it so that got to her. State Farm took 30 minutes to arrange the tow, schedule the body shop, and have the rental reserved. I have a $500 deductible so that's all it'll cost us. I'm pretty tickled the damage is as light as it is, she must've got on the brakes quick. I preach to to her and the kids to hit a deer instead of trying to dodge it and crashing worse, she did it. Our roads here have no shoulders, once you drop off the asphalt it's in the ditch. I've worked way too many bad wrecks with serious injuries or worse from trying to miss deer so as bad as it is I'm happy with the outcome.

There's not a lot of real damage. It pushed the front of the hood in, cracked the bumper, broke a fog light, put a small dent in the front of a fender, and poked a hole in the oil cooler. Structurally I saw nothing wrong, insurance already has me a rental and the car is at the shop. Actually it was a pretty light hit for a deer collision. I bought the car a year ago this week after an F250 hit her and totaled her Equinox. I live in a small town that was known for years as the used car capital of the country, so the body shops are above average and can do great work.

Well my daughter and I tried to do our part and put 6 in the freezer. Problem is we didn't do well enough, wife got number 7 with the new Jeep this morning. Hood, bumper, light, fender, and busted the oil cooler. Who knows the hidden plastic parts broken. :bawling:

I plan to see you at Don's. Stay strong and at least listen to the doc most of the time.

Prayers up!!

We're right on the Tennessee border so we just get their residents coming here to buy untaxed groceries, for some reason they are special and don't feel the need to follow our "keep right except to pass" laws. The fly on the 2 lane near the border, jump in the left lane as soon as it widens out and slow down. Some days it's like driving in Florida. Like Jeff Foxworthy said "it should be legal to get under them, get them loose, and put them in the wall".

Worst part of this plan to completely service the bike in one go is that we usually get enough warm weather here that I can ride a few days each month through the winter. That means a big tear down will cost riding days whenever I do it. I hope to get all the parts here before I start it so it can go back together quick. You guys that work all winter on our bike to ride a few months of the year don't know what you're missing. I got a couple hundred miles in last week, and will probably get that many more tomorrow. Winterizing a bike here means you put on a sweat shirt under the leathers. That plus we don't have to deal with the snowbirds heading south each winter, even though we can ride a few hours south to be warm.

I took the RKs off when I got it and went back to stock. Don't like my bikes louder than my radio. All lubed up.

Well dang, I just saw Skydoc's video and guess I need to order that blinker fluid too. Do you think he'll discount shipping if I order it with the new valve job gaskets?

Well since I am now more informed than ever I'm afraid of bringing up the missing class controller checks. Should I go ahead and change the tires over to winter air while I'm at it? Where do I check the windshield washer fluid level?:rasberry:

See I knew somebody would catch what I wasn't thinking about on the parts order. However since the RSV speedo is electronic I think I'll skip that. thanks for the input.